Justice

No not the judicial balance of right and wrong more like the extremely talented and successful french music duo who are undoubtbly one of the best acts currently on the electro house scene! Lets find out who they are and what they are about!

Background:

Justice are a Grammy Award winning French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979 in Besançon) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982 in Rosnay). The duo are one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and are managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter.

Justice are known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into their music and image.

Their debut album Cross was released in June 2007^[5] to critical acclaim The album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Electronic/Dance Album" and came in at number 15 on Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2007 and number 18 on Blender's^.

  It was nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, losing out to The Reminder by Feist. Their remix of the MGMT song "Electric Feel" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical in 2009.

In June 2009, it was announced that Justice would be moving to WMG/Atlantic's newly relaunched Elektra Records label. The band reportedly started work on their second album in mid-2010, with no release date yet announced.

What they use and what the sound like:

Their style has been thought of as having some heavy metal influence and combines cut-up bass lines with a compressed and distorted synth sound. Their music often includes bass slapping. Additionally, Justice uses samples of other songs to add to the effect, as with their song "TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY", featuring Uffie.



Equipment used by Justice in their productions include :

• an Apogee Ensemble Recording Interface
• a Power Mac G5 computer
• Cubase
• other software sequencers.

Their live setup includes :

• a Korg RADIAS
• three JazzMutant Lemur Input Devices,
• two MacBook Pros running Ableton Live
• a Korg MicroKorg
• an AKAI MPD24
• a Korg ZERO8
• a Pioneer DJM800.

On each side of "Valentine" (a non-functional modular synthesizer prop) are nine stacked Marshall cabinet fronts, adding up to a total of 18. The cabinet stacks are another nonfunctional prop that serve as stage dressing.





Their DJ setup previously included two Pioneer CDJ-1000MK3s and a Pioneer DJM800., but since the A Cross The Universe release tour, Justice have been using Ableton Live controlled by an AKAI MPD24 and a Pioneer DJM800 for their DJ sets.